BRAK / Bratislava Book Festival 2025

12th year of BRAK festival again heads to the center of Bratislava! They can be safe and anxious, good and disturbed, they can arise among people and institutions, the city and its inhabitants, children and parents. They can surround us and we can create them. On 29 May - 1 June, it will welcome a number of small and medium -sized publishers from Slovakia and a wider region on the Main Square and will present domestic and foreign guests in cooperation with partners. You can look forward to author meetings and readers, but also exhibitions, concerts or theater performances. Brack perceives the book as a result of the connection of the text with visual and literature with performance. Together with the partners, it will bring a number of interesting guests and concepts, such as the Goethe Institute will present the Austrian author Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker, Absynt will bring Zbigniew Rokita, Artforum will introduce us to the author of the legendary Jefferson, Jean-Claud Mourlevate Legendary novel Return to Remeš, Didier Eribon. Together with the Bratislava City Gallery, we will prepare an exhibition of works and illustrations Miroslav Cipár, we also think of the MDD and with the Bratislava City Museum we will again prepare a separate children's zone and in cooperation with Pink Whale we are preparing for you the baptism of the second album to kill Francis and much more. The first day of the festival (29.5. 2025) will therefore traditionally include a conference of book professionals, which will be open to the general public, the program will also include networking events and space for meaningful conversations among all who are interested in them.

Book exhibition can be found at the Main Square, the festival will be held in the Roma House and Mirbach Palace, Franciscan Square, Town Hall Courtyard, in the Museum of the City of Bratislava, White 6, Gunago, in Martinus, Obchodná, Pod Michalska, Čeleká, Čele. Center, Zichy and Palffy Palace or in libraries at the Capuchin and Zagreb.

The festival was supported by: Capital of Bratislava, Bratislava - Staré Mesto, Bratislava Cultural and Information Center, Bratislava Self -Governing Region, Visegrad Fund, Csiri Mojó, Villa Decius, Větrné Mlýny, Knihex, author Chrzestny, Szépirók Társasága, City Library in Bratislava, Old Town Book. Library, Pink Whale, Bratislava City Museum, City Gallery, Czech Center, Polish Institute, Goethe Institute, French Institute, Austrian Cultural Forum, Italian Cultural Institute, Portuguese Institute, Ukrainian Institute, Medi -Party, Szépírók Társasága, Slovak Literary Center, European and International Booksellers Federation, Federation of European Publishers, European Union Prize for Literature, Canon, NN Foundation, Martinus, Brazil Embassy in Bratislava, Instituto Guimarães Rosa, Europapier Slovakia, Artforum, Hyundai Slovakia, cult Minor, Swedish Embassy. KK Bagala, Wolt Slovakia, Pilsner Urquell, Bratislava Water Company, MT Agency, Banovecka Dwarfare, Ozseus, Bittner, Land of Readers, Zones.sk, In.BA, Old Town Newspapers, Reason, Citylife.sk, Bigmedia, JCdeCaux Slovakia Tourist Board, Radio Devín, Radio_FM, Book Review, A2, Capital, Mediknihami.sk, Iliteratura.cz, Goout.net/en, National Trust n. o., Romer's house and literarnyklub.sk.

The author of the festival visuals is Matúš Hnát, the National Design Award.